Bruin Underwater Robotics
Bruin Underwater Robotics
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Bruin Underwater Robotics (BUR) is a technical project part of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) at UCLA, dedicated to creating robots capable of operating in and exploring underwater environments. Underwater robotics is a unique field with applications such as ocean cleanup, marine biology research, and deep sea exploration. These environments provide exceptional engineering challenges that require creative problem-solving involving areas such as fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mechanisms, and circuit design.
Through the process of designing, fabricating, and testing a robot to perform those tasks under these conditions, members will learn about and draw from many areas of engineering knowledge, skill, and theory to collaboratively produce a fully functional and useful underwater robot.
The 2023-2024 season marked our debut into the Robosub competition. With our AUV, Ambition, we matched the performance of teams who have competed for over a decade.
In 2022-2023, Bruin Underwater Robotics competed in the MATE ROV competition. In only our second year, we qualified for Worlds!
Learn more about our team, including the leads, sub-leads, and team members for each of the four subdivisions in BUR.
Interested to learn about our progress in designing, building, and testing our Underwater robot? Click here to learn more about our most recent underwater vehicle.